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Chicago examiner vol xiv no 171 a m saturday Chicago july 8 1916 saturday c s i'iunt office jrltlcci ur\cj jtdjs 1 niturnj two cents mob rules chihuahua villa off turaidu.s first chief telegraphs washing ton he will do his best to prevent such invasion funs ton ordered to be on lookout american reply to mexican note accepting peace parley plan is forwarded to carranza pro tection of border main pivot chihuahua city july 6 via courier to el paso july 7 mob law reigns here the peo ple are stricken with famine public service plants have been dismantled by vandals the water supply has been shut off street cars are not running the city is m darkness trevino's army here is the cause of the trouble the soldiers have not been paid they have been forced to loot the stores for food several merchants who resisted them have been killed it has been a battle of the strong 1 ' the women children and civilians have had to give up their food supplies to the soldiers the former are fighting each other to death over the crumbs from the latter hardly any food is being shipped m however so gen eral famine appears inevitable gen eral trevino seems powerless to curb it a report that villa is marching on chihuahua city is hailed with joy hej-e the bandit's coming promises | relief undoubtedly many of tre vino's men as well as all the peons will join his forces if he gets here american reply sent to mexican capital washington july 7 â€” bliseo ar redondo mexican ambassador-des ignate forwarded to his government this afternoon the reply of the united btates to the carranza note the mexican representative also bent to the state department a tele gram from carranza warning the state department of the danger of a new border raid near glen springs and boquillas by a large vlllista band which attacked the carranza garrison at corralitos last wednes day at the request of the state depart ment secretary of war baker trans mitted carranza's warning to general funston from sources it considers reliable the state department has been told the threatening bandit force is led personally by villa carranza m his telegram agreed to do all m his power to prevent the villa band from reaching the border recalling past experiences however the war department is not satisfied to leave the villa pursuit m carran za's hands the instructions tele graphed to general funston were de signed to enable him to concentrate his troops m sufficient force to repel any effort of mexicans to cross the border lansing leaves polk to handle parley secretary lansing left for his va cation to-day leaving counselor frank l polk to take up the nego tiations with arredondo mr folk laid he would await the next move f the mexican government arre iondo said he expected to receive telegraphic instructions within twen y-four hours to proceed with the aegotiations details of the negotiations have lot been worked out but it is known hey will revolve around two pivotal points first arrangements for co-oper tlon of american and mexican roops to restore order along the m intervene in mexico not to make but end war says mr hearst i am for actual honorable peace but anarchy is not peace bloody murder and bestial outrage are not brotherly love and good will reprinted from the brooklyn eagle of july 6 william randolph hearst who is now a patient m the presby terian hospital m new york recovering from a slight operation has written the following letter to register o'loughlin of brook lyn setting forth his position m regard to oar relations with mexico presbyterian hospital seventieth street and madison aye new york july 5 1916 mr r t o'loughlin register of kings county brooklyn n y my dear mr o'loughlin i have noticed the attacks of the small americans and the state ment that the attitude of the hearst newspapers on the mexican situation is due to the fact that there are hearst property in terests m mexico i have always noticed that it is those who are weak m argu ment who resort to abuse and that it is those who fail with facts who resort to misrepresentations i do not object to attacks even unfair ones upon the posi tion of the hearst papers i welcome them for the more atten tion given to the attitude of the hearst papers at this time the more glory there will be to the hearst papers when + heir attitude is finally shown to be the correct one as it surely will be moreover i know of no surer indication that a big broad prop osition is right than is to be found m the angry opposition of little minds now by way of analysis what is the attitude of the hearst papers on the mexican situation it is merely that the united states government exercise the fundamental function of all govern ments and protect its citizens ; that it prevent mexicans from mur dering any more of our citizens and that it punish mexico for the murders and outrages already committed upon our citizens and our soldiers this is not an extreme attitude or an extraordinary attitude it is not an unprecedented or unpatriotic attitude on the contrary it is the usually accepted conception of the duty of any government under similar circumstances it is even more than that it is a literal expression and an exact reproduction of the guaranty of the democratic platform of 1912 under which the present government at washington was put into of fice by the american people a platform is a party's word of honor it is not unreasonable therefore to expect and to demand that a party shall live up to its word of honor second the attitude which is maintained by the hearst publica tions m reference to the mexican situation is not unusual with them it is the exact attitude which the hearst publications maintained with reference to the cuban situation and there were no hearst in terests m cuba it is the exact attitude which the hearst publications urged upon the government preceding the war with spain it is the exact attitude which the government adopted with respect to spain at that time the hearst papers m 1898 urged the united states government to stop by force if need be the years of anarchy and outrage m cuba to resent the insults to the united states and to avenge the murder of american sailors and the defiant insult to the american flag m the blowing up of the maine the united states government adopted the attitude of the hearst papers we all know with what honor to itself and with how great an advancement of peace and justice throughout the western world cuba was relieved from persecution and made free and peace and happiness were established at our doors where formerly had existed everlasting disorder and destruction suffering and sorrow let those who would criticise the attitude of the hearst papers m this mexican situation begin by criticising the action of the united states m the cuban situation finally m what way am i being guided by mercenary motives m my attitude on the mexican situation in what way am i being benefited m regard to the hearst properties m mexico by urging the united states to take summary action against the government of mexico for its crimes and outrages upon the citizens of the united states it would seem tc me that any one who was not an incurable idiot would see at a glance that i was incurring the greatest possible risk to any properties i or my family might have m mexico by tak ing this stand so objectionable to the powers m mexico and that nothing but a strong sense of patriotic duty would impel a man woman is indicted in auto thefts mrs elvira stiles wife of post office official reported to be named with thirteen men grand jury action discloses trust for stealing machines which includes a fiscal agent fourteen indictments one against a woman were voted by the grand jury yesterday as the climax to an eighteen months campaign on the part of state's attorney hoyne and the reorganized detective bureau against the automobile thieves trust nine men are named accord ing to a report current m the state's attorney's office and the formal re turns on the indictments are to be made monday here are the people reported to have been named m the indict ments mrs elvixa e stiles a real estate operator with an office in the hnrtford building and the tvife of major william n sttlex foreman of the grencrni delivery department of the Chicago postoffice walter furniss jack almoxy alias red jack an automobile thief with a lon po lice record Â» earl dear alias edward dean a partner of almony's and listed on the records of the detective bureau as an automobile thief hkwik alias nemo klelman l a whitehead credited with being a leader of the trust w e whitehead a brother of i i a whitehead r d whitehead another broth er f â– walter e itl i 111 n listed as fiscal agent of the trust louis m erb real estate broker said to have been with mrs stiles an aid m disposing of the stolen cars the auto thieves trust has been operating m Chicago for two years or more but it is only m the last eighteen months that the detective bureau and the men on the personal staff of the state's attorney have had any definite material to work on furniss almony dear kleiman and an underworld character known as frankie burns are said to have done the actual stealing and to have altered the cars so identification was made almost impossible relihan started as the fiscal agent it is said and sold the first car to l a whitehead whitehead then joined the gang and brought m his brothers mrs stiles is said to have come m first to sign bonds for any of the gang arrested and then later to have interested erb and to have joined m the disposal of the cars her reward for the first work she did for the gang is said to have been a fine seven-passenger car major stiles questioned all the indictments voted yester day charge larceny and receiving stolen property additional indict ments charging conspiracy against the members of the gang already named and larceny conspiracy and receiving stolen property against four other members of the gang will it is said be voted monday major stiles was questioned at the states attorney's office regarding his knowledge of his wife's connec tions with the gang but insisted that he knew nothing of it and that his wife m his belief was not mixed m the trouble at all testimony however that tends to connect major stiles with the con spiracy was given before the grand jury late m the afternoon further testimony along this line will be given before that body monday be fore the additional indictments con templated are voted mrs stiles at her home 2919 washington boulevard denied to an examiner reporter yesterday after noon that she even knew the men with whom she is said to have been i indicted - . penniless and on their honeymoon they try to die joseph irwin and bride of two weeks cut arteries at hol land mich hotel two weeks ago joseph irwin one of chicago's best known men about | town married miss mabel orman and went to macatawa beach near hol land mich for the honeymoon yesterday a spot of red was ob served slowly widening on the ceil ing of the lobby of the hotel maca tawa just under the room occupied by irwin and his bride the house detective ran upstairs and found the newly married couple lying on the bed with blood running from their wrists which had been slashed with safety razor blades irwin probably will recover but there are grave doubts about his bride we did it said irwin calmly be cause my father's firm refused to honor a draft i made against it he had made the draft he said to pay a hotel bill of about 100 his father w t irwin is a member of the peoria law firm of jack irwin & jack he is a nephew of mayor woodruff of peoria joseph irwin has been known m Chicago as a spender he had an in come of 200 a month from stocks it is said but that was not enough for him his bride was a trained nurse he married her four days after his first meeting with her dies unnoticed at jackson park beach william lahm eighteen years old â– 1409 east forty-seventh street was drowned yesterday at the jackson park bathing beach it was the first drowning of the season at the beaches the youth a high school student evidently was seized with an attack of heart disease he sank unnoticed he had been dead several hours when his body was discovered identification was made last night at undertaking rooms by the boy's mother mrs mary lahm allies are ready for balkan drive london july 8 3:40 a m â€” french troops numbering 4,500 have disembarked at petra bay mytilene according to a dispatch from athens it is probable the latest landing of french troops is for the purpose of recuperation in preparation for the expected allied drive from saloniki a new army numbering 700,000 men composed of veterans of the french and british forces and the reorgan ized serbian army is believed to be ready for a great offensive tries to die poor aim saves his life moses lambkin fired two shots at himself last night and then believ ing himself dead lay down to wait j for the undertaker it was a po ! liceman who found him however and woke him vp â€” because there were no bullet holes m his corpse this perplexed lambkin consider i ably but he analyzed the situation j and said i thought i was dead â€” them bul | lest came mighty close mrs c studebaker dead at south bend by international news service south bend ind july 7 â€” mrs ! clem studebaker sr benefactress ! and one of the best known women m the middle west died to-night i after six weeks illness with heart i trouble her three children colo nel george m studebaker clement j studebaker and mrs c a carlisle | were at her bedside mrs studebaker | was a bnefactor of de pauw univer sity at greencastle ind new deckhand's pay small jumps m lake james lucas shipped as a deckhand on the steamer indiana yesterday but forgot to ascertain the amount of his wages until the boat had sailed seventy-five cents a day said the purser " - tain"t enough said lu cas i'm going back and dived off the stern at the iroquois memorial hospital it was said he probably would live t blow safe start fire loop hotel robbers blast spreads flames on clark street near madison and 125 guests are routed from beds m Chicago house blaze bursts through the roof after doing 50,000 damage and makes startling spectacle for the downtown hostelries safe-blowers used so much ni troglycerin early this morning m opening a safe m the cham bers cafeteria 24 south clark street that the explosion set fire to the building caused 50,000 damages and imperiled the lives of 125 men and women guests of the Chicago hotel next door policemen ran into the hotel aroused the guest and managed to get them out to the street without causing a panic the safe-blowers must have num bered at least three or four it is es timated because they moved a heavy sate from the front part of the build ing to the rear before they blew it open apparently hoping thus to pre vent the explosion from being heard m the street blankets cover safe blaze mounts air shaft they covered the safe with blan kets and lighted the fuse it is sup posed that the blankets caught fire and that the blaze then mounted an air shaft to the upper floors the cafeteria was on the second floor gusest of the new morrison hotel were first to see the fames and one of them teephoned the alarm be cause of the location m the heart of the loop district there were special calls for apparatus and a great crowd gathered the ground floor is occupied by the marshall jackson company sta tioners miss chambers cafeteria is just above the third floor is occupied by the garden city engraving com pany and the fourth and fifth floors by the irving pitt manufacturing companq fire makes spectacular sight m the loop the loss was chiefly confined to the upper floors the flames burst through the roof and were plainly visible from windows of the black stone and other lake front hotels the fire threatened to spread to the Chicago hotel but the quick work of the fire department pre vented that otis fisher the night clark aroused many of the guests told them to dress and be ready to leave if necessary many of them did pack their suitcases and went to other hotels a dozen women ran downstairs m night attire at the new morrison hotel al though there was no danger the telephone operators were busy for several minutes reassuring their guests whether the safe-blowers got any money or not is not known the con tents of the safe appeared to be scat tered about the floor but the police think the yeggmen frightened by the effects of their work probably fled without waiting to gather their plunder 2 t o 1 odds offered on hughes election by international news service new york july 7 â€” edward mc quade the curb market stakeholder is offering odds of 2 to 1 that hughes will be the next president and he reports that there is no wilson money m sight ajew days ago the odds on t!i<'^sÃŸsj#ui,ii ; vi nominee were 8 to 5 v^v financial fabric is in great peril asserts economist london july 7 francis w hirst the prominent finan cial writer m his valedictory re signing the editorship of the lon don economist after a tenure of nine years says in my view the financial fabric of western europe is m imminent peril and m a few more months it will no longer be pos sible to disguise the bankrupt condition of several great nations civilization as we have known it and representative institutions are doomed unless through the exer tions of individuals rights with out which an englishman at any rate will hardly care to live are speedily restored that the negotiation of peace is a difficult task i admit that the attainment of an honorable and lasting settlement is beyond the region of competent diplomacy i deny that peace is desired by all belligerent nations i feel cer tain and the fact that the circu lation of the economist has touched its height during the last few weeks may serve to indicate the feeling of our business men herman koenig drops dead at reinzi gardens pioneer furniture dealer sue 1 cumbs to heart attacks early this morning herman koenig forty-nine years old 435 surf street president of the herman koenig furniture company 533 west Chicago avenue dropped dead m the rienzi cafe 2801 broad | way early this morning the police i of the sheffield avenue station were notified death is believed to have been caused by heart disease mr koenig waÃŸ accompanied by his wife and miss lottie schreiber a | cousin they were sitting at a table i when mr zoenis complained of feel | ing ill before aid could be sum moned he fell to the foor and died a short time later he was born january 1 1867 he is survived by his widow mrs ida j koenig and a son john who is m \ | the west the furniture company of which ; j mr koenig was head was one of the i | oldest m the west his father orig , | inally established the business and i later it was consolidated with an ' other company and called the koenig i & ganer furniture company in 190s | it was incorporated and mr koenig was made president he was a mem ber of the republican and Chicago athletic clubs mclean files suit to break father's will by international news service j washington july 7 â€” edward i b mclean this afternoon began suit ! m the district of columbia supreme court to break the will of his father the late john r mclean publisher of the washington post and the cincin nati enquirer the younger mclean is the sole heir but the property es timated at from 15,000,000 to 20 000,000 was he!d m trust for him former secretary of state ellhu root is chief counsel for the plaintiff [ mclean charges that his father was | unduly influenced and of unsound j mind when making his will u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair saturday cooler m afternoon find nlghti sunday probably fair and cool [ winds mostly moderate northeast temi'eratube for twenty-four hours ending at 2 a m hik-hest 81 1 lowest t3 men 77 normal temperature for the day 73 execs of temncotture sidce january 1 223 degrees precipitation for twenty-fotir hours none excess since january 1 2.45 im-hes relative humidity 7 a m 63 2 p m 45 t p m 44 barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 30.12 7 p m 30.03 sunriat to-day 4:22 sunset to-morrow 7:27 moon arts 11:15 p m saturday Â» complete government renwt on ma 15 british rout germans in new drive teutons storied of ips 3,000 yards of trenches cap tured by english and counter attacks of prussian guards re pulsed fierce battle still on smashing assault forestalls the german offensive and enters villages of ovillers and con talmaison the latter is lost by international news service london july 7 â€” the second phase of the battle of the somme developed to-day Â». ith a strong movement by the british over a front of approximately eight miles extending from north of fricourt to the ancre in the face of a deter mined german counter-offensiv o mf a large portion of this front into which the prussian guards the kai ser's famous regiment were thrown the british made steady gains cap turing a series of strong positions they have entered the village of ovillers part of which they hold and had in their possession for a time the strongly defended town of contal maison the germans by a deter mined counter-attack regained this village but to-night furious fighting is proceeding in the outskirts advance 500 yards on mile front one of the largest gains recorded i by the british was won east of la i ; poissells after breaking through a i german trench line on a front of 1,000 yards during the night english troops to-day drove their advance 500 yards further on a 2,000-yard front the fighting to-day was a series ! of linked actions with thiepval on the north ovillers and contalmalson in the center and the region north of fricourt on the south the points of heaviest contact following the recapture by the germans of 30u yards of trenches northwest of thiep val the british crumpled up a de termined counter-attack southwest oijm the town and to-day launching an assault at dawn captured by storm the immensely strong leipzig re doubt which the germans had been fortifying for twenty months this position was the principal point of support of the german salient in this region and its loss menaces the en tire wedge british drive through three german lines linked with this action to the south was the british drive on ovillers here they forced their way across more than a quarter of a mile of fortified ground into the outskirts of the town the contalmaison action took place further to the south while . on the extreme wing of the advance british troops striking from a point northeast of fricourt swept across three lines of german trenches and through two strongly organized woods general haig to-night reports that the german losses during the day were severe several large organ izations of reserves were taken under the fire of the british big gun which kept up a steady fire against villages behind the german fronts offensive prevents counter attack the british offensive to-day ac cording to all indications w launched at the psychological mo ment it broke up a great counter blow which the germans apparently were just getting ready to strike on tlje english front the concentra a tionmof reinforcements behind tlm^fc fronbhad been praciically completibfe ontinued on 2d page 6th column ( i i ( continued on 2d page 4th column ya full measure j of usefulness as well as genuine t j pleasure is meted out to every c i oman who owns a motorcycle /-\ the motorcycle bargains m the examiner's want ad section leave no excuse for anyone not j i 1 owning a machine i . y fihali leditiokl

Chicago examiner vol xiv no 171 a m saturday Chicago july 8 1916 saturday c s i'iunt office jrltlcci ur\cj jtdjs 1 niturnj two cents mob rules chihuahua villa off turaidu.s first chief telegraphs washing ton he will do his best to prevent such invasion funs ton ordered to be on lookout american reply to mexican note accepting peace parley plan is forwarded to carranza pro tection of border main pivot chihuahua city july 6 via courier to el paso july 7 mob law reigns here the peo ple are stricken with famine public service plants have been dismantled by vandals the water supply has been shut off street cars are not running the city is m darkness trevino's army here is the cause of the trouble the soldiers have not been paid they have been forced to loot the stores for food several merchants who resisted them have been killed it has been a battle of the strong 1 ' the women children and civilians have had to give up their food supplies to the soldiers the former are fighting each other to death over the crumbs from the latter hardly any food is being shipped m however so gen eral famine appears inevitable gen eral trevino seems powerless to curb it a report that villa is marching on chihuahua city is hailed with joy hej-e the bandit's coming promises | relief undoubtedly many of tre vino's men as well as all the peons will join his forces if he gets here american reply sent to mexican capital washington july 7 â€” bliseo ar redondo mexican ambassador-des ignate forwarded to his government this afternoon the reply of the united btates to the carranza note the mexican representative also bent to the state department a tele gram from carranza warning the state department of the danger of a new border raid near glen springs and boquillas by a large vlllista band which attacked the carranza garrison at corralitos last wednes day at the request of the state depart ment secretary of war baker trans mitted carranza's warning to general funston from sources it considers reliable the state department has been told the threatening bandit force is led personally by villa carranza m his telegram agreed to do all m his power to prevent the villa band from reaching the border recalling past experiences however the war department is not satisfied to leave the villa pursuit m carran za's hands the instructions tele graphed to general funston were de signed to enable him to concentrate his troops m sufficient force to repel any effort of mexicans to cross the border lansing leaves polk to handle parley secretary lansing left for his va cation to-day leaving counselor frank l polk to take up the nego tiations with arredondo mr folk laid he would await the next move f the mexican government arre iondo said he expected to receive telegraphic instructions within twen y-four hours to proceed with the aegotiations details of the negotiations have lot been worked out but it is known hey will revolve around two pivotal points first arrangements for co-oper tlon of american and mexican roops to restore order along the m intervene in mexico not to make but end war says mr hearst i am for actual honorable peace but anarchy is not peace bloody murder and bestial outrage are not brotherly love and good will reprinted from the brooklyn eagle of july 6 william randolph hearst who is now a patient m the presby terian hospital m new york recovering from a slight operation has written the following letter to register o'loughlin of brook lyn setting forth his position m regard to oar relations with mexico presbyterian hospital seventieth street and madison aye new york july 5 1916 mr r t o'loughlin register of kings county brooklyn n y my dear mr o'loughlin i have noticed the attacks of the small americans and the state ment that the attitude of the hearst newspapers on the mexican situation is due to the fact that there are hearst property in terests m mexico i have always noticed that it is those who are weak m argu ment who resort to abuse and that it is those who fail with facts who resort to misrepresentations i do not object to attacks even unfair ones upon the posi tion of the hearst papers i welcome them for the more atten tion given to the attitude of the hearst papers at this time the more glory there will be to the hearst papers when + heir attitude is finally shown to be the correct one as it surely will be moreover i know of no surer indication that a big broad prop osition is right than is to be found m the angry opposition of little minds now by way of analysis what is the attitude of the hearst papers on the mexican situation it is merely that the united states government exercise the fundamental function of all govern ments and protect its citizens ; that it prevent mexicans from mur dering any more of our citizens and that it punish mexico for the murders and outrages already committed upon our citizens and our soldiers this is not an extreme attitude or an extraordinary attitude it is not an unprecedented or unpatriotic attitude on the contrary it is the usually accepted conception of the duty of any government under similar circumstances it is even more than that it is a literal expression and an exact reproduction of the guaranty of the democratic platform of 1912 under which the present government at washington was put into of fice by the american people a platform is a party's word of honor it is not unreasonable therefore to expect and to demand that a party shall live up to its word of honor second the attitude which is maintained by the hearst publica tions m reference to the mexican situation is not unusual with them it is the exact attitude which the hearst publications maintained with reference to the cuban situation and there were no hearst in terests m cuba it is the exact attitude which the hearst publications urged upon the government preceding the war with spain it is the exact attitude which the government adopted with respect to spain at that time the hearst papers m 1898 urged the united states government to stop by force if need be the years of anarchy and outrage m cuba to resent the insults to the united states and to avenge the murder of american sailors and the defiant insult to the american flag m the blowing up of the maine the united states government adopted the attitude of the hearst papers we all know with what honor to itself and with how great an advancement of peace and justice throughout the western world cuba was relieved from persecution and made free and peace and happiness were established at our doors where formerly had existed everlasting disorder and destruction suffering and sorrow let those who would criticise the attitude of the hearst papers m this mexican situation begin by criticising the action of the united states m the cuban situation finally m what way am i being guided by mercenary motives m my attitude on the mexican situation in what way am i being benefited m regard to the hearst properties m mexico by urging the united states to take summary action against the government of mexico for its crimes and outrages upon the citizens of the united states it would seem tc me that any one who was not an incurable idiot would see at a glance that i was incurring the greatest possible risk to any properties i or my family might have m mexico by tak ing this stand so objectionable to the powers m mexico and that nothing but a strong sense of patriotic duty would impel a man woman is indicted in auto thefts mrs elvira stiles wife of post office official reported to be named with thirteen men grand jury action discloses trust for stealing machines which includes a fiscal agent fourteen indictments one against a woman were voted by the grand jury yesterday as the climax to an eighteen months campaign on the part of state's attorney hoyne and the reorganized detective bureau against the automobile thieves trust nine men are named accord ing to a report current m the state's attorney's office and the formal re turns on the indictments are to be made monday here are the people reported to have been named m the indict ments mrs elvixa e stiles a real estate operator with an office in the hnrtford building and the tvife of major william n sttlex foreman of the grencrni delivery department of the Chicago postoffice walter furniss jack almoxy alias red jack an automobile thief with a lon po lice record Â» earl dear alias edward dean a partner of almony's and listed on the records of the detective bureau as an automobile thief hkwik alias nemo klelman l a whitehead credited with being a leader of the trust w e whitehead a brother of i i a whitehead r d whitehead another broth er f â– walter e itl i 111 n listed as fiscal agent of the trust louis m erb real estate broker said to have been with mrs stiles an aid m disposing of the stolen cars the auto thieves trust has been operating m Chicago for two years or more but it is only m the last eighteen months that the detective bureau and the men on the personal staff of the state's attorney have had any definite material to work on furniss almony dear kleiman and an underworld character known as frankie burns are said to have done the actual stealing and to have altered the cars so identification was made almost impossible relihan started as the fiscal agent it is said and sold the first car to l a whitehead whitehead then joined the gang and brought m his brothers mrs stiles is said to have come m first to sign bonds for any of the gang arrested and then later to have interested erb and to have joined m the disposal of the cars her reward for the first work she did for the gang is said to have been a fine seven-passenger car major stiles questioned all the indictments voted yester day charge larceny and receiving stolen property additional indict ments charging conspiracy against the members of the gang already named and larceny conspiracy and receiving stolen property against four other members of the gang will it is said be voted monday major stiles was questioned at the states attorney's office regarding his knowledge of his wife's connec tions with the gang but insisted that he knew nothing of it and that his wife m his belief was not mixed m the trouble at all testimony however that tends to connect major stiles with the con spiracy was given before the grand jury late m the afternoon further testimony along this line will be given before that body monday be fore the additional indictments con templated are voted mrs stiles at her home 2919 washington boulevard denied to an examiner reporter yesterday after noon that she even knew the men with whom she is said to have been i indicted - . penniless and on their honeymoon they try to die joseph irwin and bride of two weeks cut arteries at hol land mich hotel two weeks ago joseph irwin one of chicago's best known men about | town married miss mabel orman and went to macatawa beach near hol land mich for the honeymoon yesterday a spot of red was ob served slowly widening on the ceil ing of the lobby of the hotel maca tawa just under the room occupied by irwin and his bride the house detective ran upstairs and found the newly married couple lying on the bed with blood running from their wrists which had been slashed with safety razor blades irwin probably will recover but there are grave doubts about his bride we did it said irwin calmly be cause my father's firm refused to honor a draft i made against it he had made the draft he said to pay a hotel bill of about 100 his father w t irwin is a member of the peoria law firm of jack irwin & jack he is a nephew of mayor woodruff of peoria joseph irwin has been known m Chicago as a spender he had an in come of 200 a month from stocks it is said but that was not enough for him his bride was a trained nurse he married her four days after his first meeting with her dies unnoticed at jackson park beach william lahm eighteen years old â– 1409 east forty-seventh street was drowned yesterday at the jackson park bathing beach it was the first drowning of the season at the beaches the youth a high school student evidently was seized with an attack of heart disease he sank unnoticed he had been dead several hours when his body was discovered identification was made last night at undertaking rooms by the boy's mother mrs mary lahm allies are ready for balkan drive london july 8 3:40 a m â€” french troops numbering 4,500 have disembarked at petra bay mytilene according to a dispatch from athens it is probable the latest landing of french troops is for the purpose of recuperation in preparation for the expected allied drive from saloniki a new army numbering 700,000 men composed of veterans of the french and british forces and the reorgan ized serbian army is believed to be ready for a great offensive tries to die poor aim saves his life moses lambkin fired two shots at himself last night and then believ ing himself dead lay down to wait j for the undertaker it was a po ! liceman who found him however and woke him vp â€” because there were no bullet holes m his corpse this perplexed lambkin consider i ably but he analyzed the situation j and said i thought i was dead â€” them bul | lest came mighty close mrs c studebaker dead at south bend by international news service south bend ind july 7 â€” mrs ! clem studebaker sr benefactress ! and one of the best known women m the middle west died to-night i after six weeks illness with heart i trouble her three children colo nel george m studebaker clement j studebaker and mrs c a carlisle | were at her bedside mrs studebaker | was a bnefactor of de pauw univer sity at greencastle ind new deckhand's pay small jumps m lake james lucas shipped as a deckhand on the steamer indiana yesterday but forgot to ascertain the amount of his wages until the boat had sailed seventy-five cents a day said the purser " - tain"t enough said lu cas i'm going back and dived off the stern at the iroquois memorial hospital it was said he probably would live t blow safe start fire loop hotel robbers blast spreads flames on clark street near madison and 125 guests are routed from beds m Chicago house blaze bursts through the roof after doing 50,000 damage and makes startling spectacle for the downtown hostelries safe-blowers used so much ni troglycerin early this morning m opening a safe m the cham bers cafeteria 24 south clark street that the explosion set fire to the building caused 50,000 damages and imperiled the lives of 125 men and women guests of the Chicago hotel next door policemen ran into the hotel aroused the guest and managed to get them out to the street without causing a panic the safe-blowers must have num bered at least three or four it is es timated because they moved a heavy sate from the front part of the build ing to the rear before they blew it open apparently hoping thus to pre vent the explosion from being heard m the street blankets cover safe blaze mounts air shaft they covered the safe with blan kets and lighted the fuse it is sup posed that the blankets caught fire and that the blaze then mounted an air shaft to the upper floors the cafeteria was on the second floor gusest of the new morrison hotel were first to see the fames and one of them teephoned the alarm be cause of the location m the heart of the loop district there were special calls for apparatus and a great crowd gathered the ground floor is occupied by the marshall jackson company sta tioners miss chambers cafeteria is just above the third floor is occupied by the garden city engraving com pany and the fourth and fifth floors by the irving pitt manufacturing companq fire makes spectacular sight m the loop the loss was chiefly confined to the upper floors the flames burst through the roof and were plainly visible from windows of the black stone and other lake front hotels the fire threatened to spread to the Chicago hotel but the quick work of the fire department pre vented that otis fisher the night clark aroused many of the guests told them to dress and be ready to leave if necessary many of them did pack their suitcases and went to other hotels a dozen women ran downstairs m night attire at the new morrison hotel al though there was no danger the telephone operators were busy for several minutes reassuring their guests whether the safe-blowers got any money or not is not known the con tents of the safe appeared to be scat tered about the floor but the police think the yeggmen frightened by the effects of their work probably fled without waiting to gather their plunder 2 t o 1 odds offered on hughes election by international news service new york july 7 â€” edward mc quade the curb market stakeholder is offering odds of 2 to 1 that hughes will be the next president and he reports that there is no wilson money m sight ajew days ago the odds on t!i